Ka~Puu/CHANGE! Double Henshin Blasts the Heart with Sisterly Feelings!
Chapter 10: Episode 10: Friends From Beyond Space and Time! Three Monsters Down, Who Knows How Many to Go!
Previous Chapter Next ChapterNatsumi wiped the sweat from her brow, leaning heavily on her shovel as she filled in the last of the graves and carved a short inscription into the wooden grave marker before her.
Apple Fritter- Beloved Cousin
“God….” she muttered as she collapsed to her knees and stared out at the ruined wreckage of what had been Ponyville. “.... This shouldn’t have happened…. this shouldn’t have happened and it’s all my fault for letting it happen….”
Haruka plopped down next to Natsumi and sighed, “It’s not our fault. Not entirely, maybe. We could have been faster, fought harder, but… there were still monsters everywhere. We’re only two Riders, Natsumi. We can’t be everywhere.”
“I know we can’t… but so many are dead because of this…. and… even more are injured… Even with Twilight helping out, even with Discord somehow being nice… it’s still going to take time to fix this mess,” Natsumi mumbled, burying her face in her knees and letting out a muffled sob.
“Hey, it’s okay, Natsumelon,” Haruka patted Natsumi’s back, barely holding back tears of her own, “All we can do now is just help out where we can and try to fix things. And once we’re done with that, we track down the bastards that did this and make them pay!”
Natsumi looked up, bleary eyed, “You think we can really do that?”
“Hell yeah we can!” Haruka shouted, leaping to her feet and extending her hand, pointer finger reaching high into the sky. “We’re Natsumi and Haruka Miwa! The Kamen Rider Sisters! As long as there is evil in this world we can’t die! Remember the words of Kamen Rider Ichigou! Remember this, Natsumi! We’re Kamen Riders! Inheritors of the title that Ichigou started! Waza no Ichigou! Let’s Go!”
Natsumi smiled shakily, “You stole that from Gaim.”
“That I did, now come on. We still have more graves to dig,” Haruka extended her hand out to Natsumi, just in time for a strange, white hexagon to fall out of the air and land in her outstretched palm. “.... Eh?”
As Jack and Twilight exited the wormhole they looked towards each other in confusion. Jack asked, “Twilight, what just happened?”
Twilight shook her head and replied, “We were just pulled through a wormhole of some sort- by all rights we should be dead right about now.”
Jack looked out the window to see what looked like a destroyed town along with what appeared to be the remains of a large structure of some kind. Jack then looked back to Twilight with a worried look, “Whatever happened here, it must have been big… This definitely isn’t our world.”
Twilight stared back at Jack in surprise then shouted, “How is this not our world!?”
“I think we were just pulled to another Displaced’s world, similar to what happened with Sun when he came to ours,” answered Jack.
“So we’re in another world, with no way to get back?” Twilight asked fearfully.
Jack smiled, “There will be a way back… but we may need whoever it was that Displaced us to help.”
“So land the ship so we can find them and get home!” Twilight hastily shouted.
“I’m on it, just relax and I’ll get us down,” Jack muttered as he slowly brought the ship to land near the remains of the large structure.
“Natsumi?” Haruka mumbled, staring off into the distance.
“Yeah?” Natsumi asked idly, still examining the odd hexagon.
Haruka pointed out to the remains of Twilight’s castle, “.... Spaceship.”
“Spaceship?” Natsumi looked up and towards where Haruka pointed. “.... Huh. Spaceship.”
“Yeah… so… wanna explore?” Haruka smirked, hand already sliding the Gatack Zecter into her belt.
Natsumi nodded, affixing the Kabuto Zecter to her belt, “Make sure it’s not more monsters.”
“Ikuyo! Let’s Henshin!”
“Saa, showtime, da!”
HENSHIN
HENSHIN
With a burst of speed, both Haruka and Natsumi sped away in a blur of reds and blues, woes and troubles long forgotten behind them.
As the ship finally landed and the ramp extended the purple anthro-unicorn was the first to step out of the ship. “This place looks like a warzone… Jack have your Prizmod on standby, we don’t want to be ambushed!” she called back towards the ship.
“I’m already ahead of you Twilight.” Jack replied as he carefully surveyed the area around them.
Wreckage. Nothing more than smoldering wreckage with the occasional lump of misshapen, somehow unburned rubble to round out the collection. Far in the distance lay a vast swathe of billowing white fabric- likely a camp of some sort. Behind the ship lay the ruins of what appeared to be a crystal castle, great chunks of material still flaking and sloughing off from the larger mass.
Jack then turned to Twilight and said “I think our best bet to figure out what happened would be to go to whatever those tents are for over there… there maybe some people there who can help.”
Just then, a pair of beings slid to a halt before Twilight and Jack, both feminine, one with red armor, the other with blue. The female in red had a horn much like a rhinoceros beetle while her blue companion wore the horns of a stag beetle.
“Who are you, and what are your intentions?” the red one asked, smoothly moving into a defensive crouch. The blue one remained silent, mirroring her companion’s position.
“I’m Jack and this is Twilight, I am a Displaced, we think someone found my token and called us here.” Jack said calmly.
“Oh my gosh! an unknown species of alien!” Twilight gushed.
The blue one tilted her head, “Token? Displaced? The hell is that?”
“Haruka!” the red one snapped, smacking her companion on the shoulder.
“Ow! What’s your problem, Natsumelon!?” Haruka hissed, rubbing her shoulder.
“Stop calling me that!”
“Do you want us to wait for you to deal with whatever argument you are having?” inquired Jack.
Natsumi halted, “Oh, shit, right, sorry. Um…. Wait, you said her name is Twilight?” She pointed at Twilight hesitantly, not quite sure what to make of an lavender anthro-unicorn.
“Yes, my name is Twilight. Why do you ask?” Twilight said, snapping out of her excitement.
Natsumi shook her head, “Because there’s already a Twilight living in the refugee camp past the wreckage… and she’s a three foot tall lavender unicorn with wings.”
“My sister here was just wondering why you didn’t have wings,” Haruka spoke up.
“No I wasn’t!” Natsumi insisted, stomping her foot in a fit of petulance.
Jack sighed then grabbed his Prizmod from his arm and asked, “Did you find an object that looks like this?”
Natsumi held up her own Prizmod and gave it a little shake, “Yeah, just fell out of the air. What is this anyway?”
“My Token, it’s basically a calling card for Displaced, we’re humans who were send to another reality.” explains Jack.
“Ooohhhhh,” Haruka made a noise of realization, then elbowed Natsumi. “Hey, we’re humans too. What happened to you? We got dropped two thousand years ago after buying some shit from a convention.”
Natsumi nodded, “It really, really sucked.”
“Well... I went to a gaming convention, and then once I won the tournament that was based on Spectrobes I was given a letter by a strange man. Next thing I know, me and my girlfriend got sent to our reality,” explained Jack.
Haruka tapped her chin, “.... Maybe I’m just looking at a ridiculously small sample size here… but do most Displaced end up being Displaced at a convention of some kind….?”
Jack shrugged his shoulders then replied, “To be fair I don’t know I’ve only met one other Displaced and I think he was Displaced at a convention.”
Natsumi nodded, then rolled her neck as the metal beetle on her belt flew away. As her armor dissolved into shards and flecks of energy, she extended a hand. “Well, regardless, it’s nice to meet you anyway.”
“Darn… they're just humans... maybe I can learn more about their species?” Twilight silently muttered to herself.
Haruka’s armor did likewise, the blue stag beetle flying off to join its red rhinoceros beetle companion in the distance. “Say….” she muttered, “How the hell does one actually make a Token anyway?”
“Well if I remember correctly you need to find an object that relates to you, with me it was my Prizmod, and then you’d usually add a message for anyone who finds your token to identify it as yours,” explained Jack.
Natsumi sighed, “That might be a problem…”
“We have like nothing to us except our transformation items, our clothes, and our phones,” Haruka finished.
“You won’t need to worry about that, when you go to send your tokens out you keep the original… you think I would have chosen my Prizmod if I didn’t get it back?” replied Jack.
“Why don't they try making something that represents them?” Twilight suggested.
Haruka snapped her fingers, “I was just about to say that myself!”
“No you weren’t,” Natsumi back-sassed.
“Shut up I totally was!” Haruka protested.
“Guys focus, you’re acting like a pair of spoilt children.” sighed Jack disappointedly.
Haruka rolled her eyes, “Well excuse me for having an annoying twat for a sister.”
“Pot, meet kettle,” Natsumi muttered.
“I’ll be on the ship if you need me...” Twilight sighed before putting up her notebook and walking back into the ship.
“She seems disappointed,” Natsumi noted.
Haruka shrugged, “Maybe she needs to use the bathroom? Anyway, what do you think we should make, Natsumelon?”
“Your guess is as good as mine.”
“No, she’s disappointed… human’s are myths where I come from, we’re supposed to be smart and then she sees the opposite… would you be any different?” asked Jack sadly.
“.... So you think we’re not intelligent because we argue like normal sisters….?” Natsumi stared coolly at Jack, an odd twitch coming to her eye.
Haruka shook her head, speaking in a dramatic tone with her hand pressed to her forehead, “No no, of course the beings you’ve known for less than ten minutes can’t be at all smart because they squabble with each other.”
“That's not what I meant… she’s comparing you to my girlfriend who reverse engineered a Prizmod in less than a day… she expected that we were smart, creative and mostly above acting like children. As I said she expected the myths to be accurate for every human, which I know isn’t right, but she doesn’t.” Jack explained.
“Wow, your Twilight is kind of an idiot,” Haruka muttered.
“Be polite, Haruka,” Natsumi sighed.
“She more or less implied that we’re idiots- wait, did it ever occur to her that she’s in a separate fucking dimension, so the myths don’t fucking apply?” Haruka’s face contorted into a delightful mix of indignation and confusion, along with a heaping mix of condescension and surprise.
Natsumi was silent for a few telling moments until, “.... Yeah, she kind of is an idiot if she didn’t take that into account.”
“You do realise she thought that the whole thing was impossible… we came through a wormhole and she’s a scientist. She didn’t think it was possible to survive that, at most she thinks we’re in a separate solar system, where the myth would still apply,” admitted Jack.
“..... Idiot purple one aside, Haruka, what should we make?” Natsumi poked Haruka in the shoulder, prompting a shrug and a quick noise of indecision from Haruka.
“How the hell should I know?” Haruka asked.
Natsumi tapped her chin, “Hey, how about the Kamen Rider Scouts medal?”
“... I barely even remember what that looks like,” Haruka muttered.
“Well, we could- Duck!” Natsumi shouted suddenly, dragging Haruka and Jack down as numerous explosions went off around them, throwing up a wave of dust and smoke.
“The fuck was that!?” Haruka coughed, trying to peer through the dust clogging the air.
“Those bastards from yesterday must have had backup!” Natsumi answered, finally spotting their assailant through the dust.
Jack then look towards the assailant nervously before asking Haruka, “Friends of yours?”
Haruka looked over and groaned, “The fuck do you think?”
“Shit, that’s Tiger-Roid…” Natsumi whispered, staring at the tiger-man with shock.
“WHO CAUSED THAT EXPLOSION!?” Twilight screamed as she hurried out of the ship.
“Get the fuck back now!” Natsumi shouted, covering her head as more explosions rang out, courtesy of the massive cannon growing out of Tiger-Roid’s back.
“Gwahahahaha!” the tiger-man cyborg cackled, launching more explosive bullets from his artillery.
“Oh? You think scaring me half to death is FUNNY!?” Twilight shouted at Tiger-Roid, her eye twitching.
“Only half? I’ll have to fix that!” Tiger-Roid cackled, bending over and aiming his cannon right at Twilight, its barrel filling with an ominous crimson light.
“Pathetic insect, you messed with the wrong scientist,” Twilight hissed as she teleported into the ship before whirring and clanking noises began sounding out. Moments later, two panels folded away from the top of the ship before a turret rose out of the hole and turned to aim at Tiger-Roid.
Jack then glared angrily at Tiger-Roid before shouting, “You will not shoot my ship!” His Prizmod opened and a large creature that looked like a samurai wearing purple and red armour appeared beside him.
Tiger-Roid simply roared out his challenge and made to fire, that is, until an arcing bolt of blue energy slammed into the ship from behind the rubble.
“Oh what the fuck now!?” Haruka screamed, slamming down her Gatack Zecter and transforming.
Natsumi paused halfway through preparing her own transformation, “Wait… was that a…. Rider… Shooting…?” With a panicked look upon her face, she rushed through her own transformation, leaving her and Haruka back in the same armor they had come in.
The turret fired a shot at Tiger-Roid before spinning around to see who fired on the ship, and prepared to fire on them also.
There stood a figure in blue and white armor, distinctively dragonfly themed, with a very odd gun leveled at the ship. With a palpable smirk, the figure pulled back the pull tab on the back of his gun and, strangely enough, disappeared as soon as it slapped a button attached to the side of its hip.
Moments later, an explosion went off inside the barrel of the turret, as the same figure appeared atop the cockpit of the ship.
“Shit, it actually is Drake!” Natsumi shouted, turning to Haruka and rushing off with a blur of red and vanishing.
Haruka cursed and shook her head, until she too vanished with a, “Clock up!”
Hissing angrily, Tiger-Roid began firing his own barrage at Jack, having easily dodged the plasma shot and uncaring that his backup had gotten into a brutal two-on-one fistfight at lightspeed.
Jack then began to flinch away, however just before the barrage hit him the samurai jumped in front of Jack protecting him from the blast before running towards Tiger-Roid.
“Graaah! Die die die!” Tiger-Roid roared, his barrage becoming more and more intense, with each bullet becoming larger with each shot.
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A quiet, mechanical voice rang out as a purple bolt of energy raced out from behind a pile of still smoking rubble, directly at Jack.
Jack then quickly turned around, but only noticed the bolt seconds before it struck him whist being unable to avoid it in time. Immediately, a massive purple cone of energy formed around the impact point, holding him in place and allowing Tiger-Roid to walk up behind Jack and jam the barrel of his cannon right into the middle of Jack’s back, a loud whine building up as the tiger-man charged a shot.
“Well well well… another human….” a new voice called out, a man in black and white, delta themed armor stalking into view. “Too bad you were just a momentary distraction before I take out those two bitches currently giving my partner a hard time.”
“Get away from Jack!” Twilight shouted as she stepped out of the ship, covered in soot and her hair all over the place, before she started firing her blaster at Tiger-Roid and the new guy.
“Hmph!” the new man darted back behind cover while Tiger-Roid released the massive bolt of energy he had charged up at Twilight, running away as the cone sticking out of Jack dissipated into harmless sparkles and faded away.
Jack then quickly grabbed his sword from his side and spun backward as he struck one of Tiger-Roids cannons before he shouted, “Samurite now!” Jack jumped out the way as the Spectrobe struck him three times with the blades on it’s arms.
Tiger-Roid stumbled, sparks flying as Samurite slashed him, then tucked into a sideways roll and leapt behind a pile of rubble. Immediately after, Kamen Rider Drake all but flew out of thin air and slammed into the ground, sparking wildly with crackles of electricity until he exploded, his gun and Drake Zecter flying into Haruka’s outstretched arms.
“Score!” she crowed, holding up her loot with utmost victorious joy.
Natsumi slid to a halt beside Haruka and looked to where Delta and Tiger-Roid had disappeared behind the rubble, “We’re not done yet, sis. We still have two more to go.”
“Damn, I know Tiger bastard’s still there, who else?” Haruka slipped both items into the peculiar Rider Hammerspace behind her back, then searched around for any signs of movement.
“Delta,” Natsumi muttered, eyes narrowed behind the lenses of her helmet.
“Shiiiit….” Haruka sighed.
Natsumi turned to Jack, “Hey, you alright?”
“Thanks to Twilight,” Jack then pointed towards Delta, “Is that other guy one of you?”
Natsumi shook her head, “If he tried to kill you, no. The only time Kamen Riders attack innocents for any reason is if they’re brainwashed or evil. Well that, or if said innocent is another Kamen Rider… funny how that always happens….”
“Well do you want to deal with him and we’ll handle the Tiger?” Jack joked.
Haruka nodded, “That’d probably be for the best. Kamen Riders are best fought by other Riders.”
“Be careful,” Natsumi warned as both of them sped away to search for the errant gunman, leaving Jack and Twilight to deal with Tiger-Roid.
“Well, this should be interesting?” Twilight said as she limped over to Jack.
“Twilight I know I said we’d do this, but pass me your gun and then stay in the ship. You're injured and won’t be able to dodge his blasts,” ordered Jack.
“I’m not leaving, I have a dissection lined up for that insect!” Twilight all but screamed before going into a coughing fit.
“You try to fight him, he will kill you Twilight. Get into the ship, that’s an order! If you want to help, use the turrets, but trying to fight him will get you killed!” shouted Jack.
“The main turret is offline, remember?” Twilight deadpanned as she grudgingly gave Jack her blaster and started to limp back in the direction of the ship.
Jack then turns around to look for Tiger-Roid and muttered “Now then, let's do this.” Seconds later Windora appeared beside Samurite as he held his sword in his right hand whilst holding Twilight's blaster in his left before he shouted, “Windora, blow away the rubble!” Seconds later small tornadoes appeared in front of Windora and headed towards two separate piles of rubble blowing the pile away instantly before turning towards a separate set.
Immediately, Tiger-Roid popped out from behind a still intact pile of rubble and fired a barrage of energy projectiles into the air, causing them to rain down around Jack while Tiger-Roid himself ran in for close combat.
Jack then shouted “Samurite!” before the Spectrobe charged towards Tiger-Roid once again before attempting to slash at him, whilst this happened Jack’s hand that was holding the gun began to shake uncontrollably as he attempted to hold it level.
Tiger-Roid took the hits, each slash resulting in a spray of sparks, then returned with a set of fierce slashes with his claws, all the while charging a massive attack in his back artillery.
Jack then noticed this and yelled, “Windora Voltronica!” With that Windora turned around then proceeded to charge towards Tiger-Roid using the jets on its arms to quickly propel itself forwards before hitting Tiger-Roid head on.
“Gwargh!” Tiger-Roid roared, releasing its attack early and sending a massive ball of energy into the air, along with shredding its back cannon. As the energy ball reached its apex, it exploded, raining burning plasma down upon the wreckage of the town.
Jack then glared at Tiger-Roid before Samurite charged towards Tiger-Roid. The Spectrobe swung both its blades towards Tiger-Roid at the same time.
Tiger-Roid stumbled back from the blow, sparking intensely until he finally fell backwards and exploded, roaring one final time as he died.
Natsumi and Haruka sped around the ruins, searching high and low for the wayward Delta. After a few moments passed, they split up and searched in different directions.
Delta, meanwhile, had taken to moving around every few moments. While he couldn’t see Natsumi and Haruka past vague blurs, it was still enough to let him dodge detection.
That is, until he took a step too early and received a generous heaping dose of fist-to-the-faceplate.
“Grah!” Delta stumbled back as Natsumi slid to a halt in front of him, fists raised threateningly.
“Two options here: You either surrender and go back home to your creators, or I kick your ass until you tell me where you came from and how to get there.” Natsumi cracked her knuckles loudly, obviously wanting the second option.
Delta shook his head and snorted, “Tch! Or the third option where I-”
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“-kill you!”
A bright beam of energy lanced out at Natsumi, striking her in the chest and locking her in place while a purple cone of energy formed.
Delta stalked forward, oozing smugness as he prepared to leap into the cone and end Natsumi’s life. “You were an interesting diversion, I must admit. Still, I have better things to do than leave you alive. Di-gah!”
Haruka suddenly replaced Delta, the other Rider rolling head over heels until he hit a column of rubble. “You’re not touching my sister, bitch!” she cried, flashing back into lightspeed and slamming a Rider Kick into Delta’s face, then de-transformed and switched to her Hopper Zecter so she could slam a Rider Punch into Delta’s crotch.
With an absolutely pathetic whimper of pain, Delta exploded, dispelling the cone of energy holding Natsumi in place and allowing her to catch the Delta Driver and its accompanying belt.
“That… was too close….” Natsumi muttered, sliding both items into her Rider Hammerspace while panting.
“Yeah…. let’s get back to Jack, see how he’s done,” Haruka stretched out and blurred away, Natsumi following along a second later.
“Hey, you alright?” Natsumi called out to Jack, sliding to a halt in front of him.
“I’ll live,” admitted Jack before slowly standing up, “He was a bit of a pain to deal with though.”
Haruka rolled her shoulders, “Kamen Rider villains tend to be like that every once in a while.”
Natsumi nodded, “So, that’s done with minimal property damage to what’s left. Now what?
“Well, I don’t know… maybe check that everyone in the camp is okay?” proposed Jack.
“Makes sense. Let’s go, Haruka,” Natsumi waved Haruka over and the both of them sped off, leaving a trail of dust behind them.
“Bye~!” Haruka called back as she left.
Jack then sighed as he recalled Windora and Samurite before shouting, “Twilight, you want to head to the camp?”
“Cant! Fixing the ship!” Twilight called back in a slightly annoyed tone.
Jack sighed before walking into the ship and placing her blaster on the side, saying, “Thank you for letting me borrow it.” Jack then turned around and walked back out of the ship as Leo appeared beside him, bowing his head.
Jack walked over to him, “Let's go to the camp, buddy.”
Leo nodded his head as they ran towards the camp in the distance.
“Natsumi!? Haruka!? Are you alright?” Twilight asked worriedly, fretting over both twins until she was satisfied with their continued health. “What were those explosions? What happened to you two?”
“Don’t worry about us, Twilight,” Natsumi shook her head and ran her fingers through her hair, “Is everyone else alright? There wasn’t any more damage from the explosions?”
Twilight nodded, “Thankfully, nothing even came near us. Now, mind explaining exactly what happened?”
“Yeah!” Kivaara called out, flapping over to fly agitated circles around Natsumi’s head, “What were you thinking, running off without me!? I was your first henshin system, ya know! You can’t just toss me aside like that and run off! I was worried!”
“Yare yare, Kivaara….” Natsumi muttered, idly catching the tiny bat-creature and patting her head, “I’m just keeping you safe from getting hurt. No sense in letting you get battered around.”
“Mou, but I’m a henshin system! I’m supposed to get into fights!” Kivaara protested fitfully until Natsumi finally gave in and let Kivaara sit in her breast pocket.
“Fiiine,” Natsumi huffed. “Anyway, Haruka and I found visitors from another dimension, the four of us got attacked by two more Riders and a Kaijin, and we won. I don’t think this place is safe anymore, by the way. All of you might want to move on.”
Haruka nodded, “No sense in letting the townspeople get caught up in our war after all this has already happened.”
“Right. We’ve already been making plans to move. The rail station up in Clopton is only a few hours away walking, so we’ll head there and then get to Canterlot,” Twilight unfurled a checklist and looked it over a few times. “You should come with us, make sure the Princesses know that you saved us.”
“Actually… speaking of coming with someone….” Haruka muttered, then looked off towards the ruins, “.... we forgot Jack.”
Seconds later, Jack appeared riding on what appeared to be another Spectrobe before it stopped in front of everyone and he jumped off its back while asking, “Was everyone here okay?”
“Yeah, they’re all okay,” Natsumi replied, then waved over at Twilight. “Twilight, meet Jack. Jack, Twilight.”
Haruka chuckled, “Play nice.”
Jack then sighed before saying, “It’s a pleasure to meet you Twilight.”
Twilight stuck out her hoof and smiled up at Jack, “The pleasure is all mine, Jack. So, you’re from another dimension, correct? I’d love to know what that’s like- would you mind me asking a few questions?”
“Yes, that is correct. And I’ll answer your questions depending on what you ask,” replied Jack inquisitively as he wondered what she wanted to know.
“Excellent! Come with me, please!” Twilight smiled brightly and began walking away towards one of the larger tents in the camp.
Jack then recalled his Spectrobe before slowly following Twilight.
Twilight levitated a clipboard in front of her as she prepared to take notes, “Alright, please state your full name, gender, age, species, and occupation, please.”
“Jack Burgin, male, eighteen, human and I’m a patrol officer for the PPP,” Jack replied calmly.
“Excellent! So, what’s your dimension like? Is there an Equestria? Are all of the inhabitants there like you or are there ponies as well?” Twilight began rattling off questions with abandon, clearly already having prepared a checklist beforehand.
“Well, yes there is an Equestria but it’s not like this; from what I’ve seen of it since my arrival it mainly consists of the headquarters for the PPP, all of the inhabitants look similar to me but I haven’t seen any ponies that look similar to you… although I have met my version of you,” explained Jack.
“You keep saying PPP…. what exactly is the PPP?” Twilight questioned, arching a brow with interest.
“ The PPP stands for ‘The Pony Planetary Patrol’ were basically a police force that looks after the civilians in our solar system,” Jack replied calmly whilst trying to remember the required information.
Twilight blinked, “Your dimension has colonized your solar system!? Amazing! What level of technology do you have?”
“Well did you see the ship that was in the sky earlier on?” asked Jack hopefully.
Twilight stared, “.... There was a ship?” Then she shook her head, “Never mind that, what was this about an alternate version of myself?”
“Ah yes, The alternate version of you is a Unicorn and is one of the top scientists in the PPP,” clarified Jack.
“So she’s still a unicorn…” Twilight muttered, scribbling down notes at a feverish pace. “Describe to me everything you can about your ship, please.”
Jack smiled, “It would probably be easier to show you.” He then grabbed his communicator before speaking, “Twilight would you be able to bring the ship nearer to the camp?”
“You sure? We don't want any civilians to panic,” Professor Sparkle responded over the communicator.
“Well considering they saw the explosions from the fight and I’m guessing the ruins we’re parked by was their town… I doubt it could be much worse.” admits Jack.
“Fine, but any panicking civilians will be blamed on you!” Professor Sparkle snorted before the communicator shut off.
Jack turned to Twilight, “Once we’re finished with the interview my ship should be nearby, I’ll show you around it.”
“Really!?” Twilight’s eyes sparkled with manic scientific glee, her mind already running wild with thoughts of what could be on the ship.
“Shall we continue with the interview?” asked Jack hopefully.
Twilight shook her head, “Right, yes, um, next question…”
“Hey Haruka?”
“Yeah, Natsumi?”
“Why’s Jack’s ship coming over here?”
“Probably because Twilight wants to see it.”
“Good point.”
“Always.”
The pair watched Jack’s ship slowly rise and settle down near the edge of camp, prompting curious and suspicious looks from many of the townsponies, but not much else other than a general air of tension.
Twilight had poked her head out when the sound of the ship’s engines reached her ears, and was currently rushing towards the ship, dragging Jack behind her.
Natsumi and Haruka, both being curious, decided to examine the ship as well.
Once everyone got inside the ship, Twilight let Jack go as he muttered, “You didn’t have to drag me here, I can walk.”
“Yes, but you were being too slow and- ooh, what’s this?” Twilight immediately darted over to the nearest piece of technology she didn’t recognize and began poking at it to see what it was.
Behind her, Natsumi and Haruka giggled and walked up to Jack. “Hey, how do we even make Tokens? We have an idea of what we wanna make,” Natsumi asked, quirking an eyebrow at Jack.
Jack sighed before muttering, “One second.” He then pulled out his communicator before saying “Twilight, would you mind looking after this world's Twilight for me.”
“Coming!” Professor Sparkle shouted as she ran over, “Where is she? I have so many questions for her!”
Jack then smiles as he points towards one of the machines near the wall before chuckling “over there… play nice.”
Twilight then ran over to her winged counterpart and shut the door behind her.
Jack then turned back to Natsumi and Haruka before saying “Sorry about that… anyway what do you have in mind to use as your Token?”
Natsumi held up two wooden fragments, “Well, we were planning on carving these into little tablets with our symbols on them.”
Haruka nodded, “Sort of like a club pin or whatever. It’s cooler than it sounds.”
“I bet it does, anyway once you’ve got them ready you need to add a message or phrase into it to tell others who you are and how to activate it,” explained Jack.
“Right…. Hmm….” Haruka shot a sneaky look over to Natsumi, who grinned back and snickered.
“Oh yeah, there’s a really good phrase that we’re using….” Natsumi barely held back full blown laughter as she and Haruka wandered away into the depths of the ship for a bit of privacy.
Jack then shook his head in disappointment before saying, “If you’re willing to joke about her not knowing what to say, you’d better have a phrase planned already.”
A few minutes later, Natsumi and Haruka walked out, each bearing a metallic medallion with a gold border on each one. The internal surface of each medal was a reflective red, with a symbol embossed into each one, a batlike symbol for Natsumi, with a stylized A for Haruka. On the back of each medal was a full color picture for each medallion, a different one for both Natsumi and Haruka.
“We got it!” Haruka crowed, holding her medal aloft in victory.
Natsumi nodded and held hers up, “And they’re totally awesome.”
“... Now what?” Haruka asked.
“Well as I said before, you need to think up a phrase for each of you, like you likely heard from mine,” explained Jack.
“Well we have that part down,” Natsumi muttered and tossed her medal at Jack. “Give it a listen if you don’t believe us.”
Jack caught the token and heard Natsumi’s and Haruka’s voices announce, “Koko kara wa oretachi no stage da! We are the Kamen Rider Sisters, defenders of Justice! If you wish our aid, take the pose upon the back of this medal and shout HENSHIN! Let your voice be heard across the world and never falter in your course of Justice!”
Natsumi shrugged, “It’s basically how Kamen Rider handled things. Same way we do it.”
“And yes, the ham is necessary,” Haruka nodded sagely, “It powers our fighting spirit.”
“And sounds really cool when you do it right,” Natsumi added.
“That it does,” admitted Jack, “Anyway now you both have a Token with a message transcribed. You need to send it out into the Void and then you’ll get a copy of the Token back.”
“.... Getting it back is kind of useless,” Haruka muttered.
“Yeah, not like we’d get much use out o- well, unless there’s some way of getting an OOOdriver….” Natsumi tapped her chin and shrugged, “Eh, whatever. How the hell do we send the Tokens to the Void anyway?”
“To be honest with you the guy I met who taught me didn’t explain that bit,” replied Jack whilst scratching the back of his head.
“... Well shi- whoa!” Haruka suddenly let go of her medal as it flew through the air, joined shortly by Natsumi’s medal.
Natsumi stared as the medals twirled, then slammed into each other and disappeared into a shower of dull grey coins. She muttered a quick, “What the fuck?”
“... Well that was awfully convenient,” Haruka murmured.
“That it was, I… really wasn’t expecting it to work like that,” exclaimed Jack in surprise, “Anyway while you here would you like a tour of the ship?”
Natsumi shrugged, “Alright.”
“Sure,” Haruka agreed.
“Okay then… anything in particular you're interested in seeing?” asked Jack.
“Eh. Not really. Anything really cool, I guess,” Haruka looked around, then muttered, “Then again, that’s pretty much everything…”
Natsumi chuckled, “Well, I guess we’ll just have to see the whole ship, then.”
“Well we’re nearest to the lab… it’s where we awakened the Spectrobes… that’s if you're interested in that sort of thing?” asked Jack.
Natsumi shrugged, looked to Haruka, then turned back to Jack, “Eh, sure. Might as well.”
“Might be educational,” added Haruka.
“Okay then… and if you’re interested we could sort you out with your own Spectrobes… you do have a Prizmod after all.”
“Eh,” Haruka shook her head, “We prefer fighting by ourselves.”
“Not that partners wouldn’t be appreciated, but we prefer fighting without needing to command anything but ourselves,” Natsumi made an apologetic face and shrugged again
“That’s fair enough then. Follow me,” With that Jack began to walk towards one of the nearby rooms before he beckoned Natsumi and Haruka to follow him inside.
As they got into the lab Jack walked towards a nearby computer before Jack said “This is the ship's main lab, I don't really stay here much if i’m honest, but we basically use this area for awakening our Spectrobes.”
“Fascinating…” Natsumi murmured, looking around at the lab with awe on her face.
Haruka tapped her chin, “Y’know, you keep mentioning Spectrobes n’ stuff, but like… what even really is a Spectrobe?”
Jack then tapped his chin and asked, “Well do you remember the creatures that I was fighting alongside earlier?”
“Not particularly,” Natsumi admitted, “We were a little busy with our own thing.”
“Yeah, apparently fighting at lightspeed gives you hella tunnel vision,” Haruka chimed in.
“Okay then, fair point,” Jack admitted as a small, yellow and blue bird appeared on his right shoulder as he continued, “This is a Aoi, he’s one of my child level Spectrobes.”
Natsumi blinked, “.... It’s a yellow and blue bird-”
“-And it’s name is Aoi?” Haruka finished. “That literally translates-”
“-To ‘Blue’....” Natsumi stared at the Aoi with a frown. “.... Did you name these things or…?”
“No, Aoi was the name he was dubbed in the English version of the game, I chose not to change it because it was simple to remember,” conceded Jack.
Natsumi and Haruka made faces of realization and spoke in unison, “Ohhh… that makes sense.”
Jack walked over to the side of the room before returning with a fossil in his hands, “This is a fossil of a Spectrobe… specifically Ryza.” He placed the fossil into a nearby screen that it disappeared into almost like the screen was made of water.
“So… what’re you doing with it right now?” Natsumi asked. Haruka was leaning in closer to see just what Jack was doing.
“Well, this is the process to awaken a Spectrobe,” He explained before a low pitch whistle could be heard and until seconds later when a small blue cat like creature appeared in a flash of light from where the fossil was only seconds before.
“Whoa!” Haruka exclaimed, rushing over to the creature and examining it from all angles.
Natsumi chuckled, “Don’t smother it, Haruka.”
Jack smiled as he walked back towards the other side of the room. He returned carrying four green rectangular minerals, saying, “I need to feed him these minerals, then he’ll grow into his next evolution.” Jack slowly fed Ryza the four minerals and the Spectrobe began to shine before being surrounded by what seemed like an egg. A moment later he pulled out something that resembled a pen.
“Eh? What’s that?” Natsumi asked.
Jack asked inquisitively, “Are you referring to the egg or the pen?” as he carefully placed egg back in the computer.
“The pen,” Natsumi answered.
“The egg,” Haruka piped in at the same time.
“.... Both, I suppose,” Natsumi acquiesced.
“Okay. The egg is the form Spectrobes go to whenever they evolve. There are three stages: child, adult, and evolved. The pen is used when they are in the computer to open the egg and complete the transformation.” Jack explained as he traced a line down the centre of the egg, causing it break open as a large blue panther with large black metal wings that pointed backwards appeared on the screen before disappearing only seconds later.
“Huh. That explains that.” Natsumi nodded resolutely and went back to looking around the lab.
Haruka, meanwhile, checked her watch and stifled a curse, “Oi, Natsumi, the camp is gonna be moving soon. Didn’t Twilight say she wanted us to help with that?”
“Oh yeah, we gotta do that…” Natsumi muttered.
“Well then it sounds like we’ll need to cut the tour short… anyway it was a pleasure to meet you guys,” declared Jack whilst he held one of his hands out.
Natsumi and Haruka shook Jack’s hands, then, as Haruka left to go drag Twilight back to camp, Natsumi asked, “.... Wait, how the hell are we supposed to send you back to your home?”
“Well the only other Displaced I met just opened portal himself so I’m not really sure,” admitted Jack.
“.... Great…. hey, I wonder what’ll happen if I…” Natsumi fished the Prizmod Token out of her pocket, then tapped her chin. “Hmm….”
“What are you thinking?” inquired Jack.
“.... What would happen if I just asked for you to go home?” Natsumi inquired, holding up the Prizmod as if it contained all the secrets of the multiverse.
Immediately after Natsumi asked her question, another amazingly convenient coincidence occurred, causing Jack and his ship to simply disappear in a flash of light while leaving Natsumi, Haruka, and their Twilight standing right where the loading ramp would have been had the ship still been there.
“.... Okay, how many amazingly convenient things are going to happen to us today?” Natsumi muttered, watching Haruka set Twilight down so that the lavender princess could go organize camp movements or whatever it was that she was doing.
Haruka shrugged, “I dunno, do you think every Kamen Rider henshin item will just fall down in front of us and give us the abilities to transform?”
Silence from both Natsumi and the world around them.
“... Well, it was worth a shot.”
Next Chapter: Episode 11: Traveling Across the Land! Who Knows What Lies Beyond! Estimated time remaining: 1 Hour, 20 MinutesAuthor's Notes:
Gahhh, so this chapter actually was written and finished before Chapter 9. Crossover with this.
Also yes, those are Core Medals for Tokens. And yes, they can be used separately to call either one or in conjunction for both sisters.
And yes, they will work in an OOODriver. Kivala is an Arm Medal (Middle slot) because of her sword, Larc is a Leg Medal (Third slot) .... that strangely creates an effect meant for an Arm Medal (Well, they're like the Kangaroo Medal, but they only do one thing and- yeah it's complicated). Also, the Scanning Charge for the Medals also summons Natsumi and Haruka, though it's only for the completion of the attack rather than for any meaningful conversation.